clickbank did something you can learn from. they require all their vendors to have a script that shows a mini image 'powerd by clickbank SSL' ...comodo SSL does the same thing to notify web visitors of SSL being used... you can do the same to have the JS file show a little thing in the corner to say 'this site has no ads and is supported by coinhive browser mining'
Coinhive – First Week Status Report
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#12how can I invest in coinhive? this is gonna be big!
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#13hi guys,
currently i am testing the coin-hive xmr miner on our video hosting called www.rapidvideo.com , but we have a opt-in window to ask the vistors for permission or not. The example is seen here: https://www.rapidvideo.com/e/FH8C3B1JK7
The goal was to find out the percentage, if the normal users accept it running or not, because I was asked to do the test.
Right now, we just started it and right now, its at circa 95% users clicking no, but the acceptance is slowly increasing in long term. For most users, they rather want to see popups than lending some CPU cycles for us.
The main issue is that the antivirus software is blocking this kind of software and some users will get the wrong idea, that it is false-oostive.
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#14DO NOT MAKE THIS OPT IN !!!!!!!!!
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#15I think it is a great idea. I am using it to try and create a charity. Though everyone who looks at it seems to think it could be a scam. Crypto just has a bad rep.
Check it out if you want www.thoughtsandprayers.io
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#16Malwarebytes is now blocking completely coin-hive.com
Yeah, I had that problem as well when I ran a two day test. I had ~2% of users report their antivirus blocked it as a Trojan and .6% tell me the site has been hacked.
And that is running it on relatively benign settings. :/
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#17One way to avoid blocking would be to self-host the js file and proxy the websocket, any plans for this?
It doesn't work. Multiple antivirus vendors flagged it when I tried that.
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#18Coinhive Miner
Payments are sent anytime your pending payouts hit this limit 1301843200 Shares. Min 0.2 XMR(~$17).
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#19I agree for compulsory user consent to mine however, this should be only compulsory for web owners having throttle greater than 0.5 for desktops and for all throttle rates for mobile devices. Anything less than 0.5 throttle on desktops should be allowed to run anonymously. My two cents! Great service indeed, and an alternate revenue stream for website owners.
Agreed. The whole point of mining is that it's a less obtrusive and less intrusive alternative to running ads. If you're going to show people a scary "opt-in" button from a separate page (which may be blocked anyway), it's easier to just ditch the idea and run ads instead.
What if they say no? Do you just block them from reading your site? Users will disappear as no one wants yet another account they have to click through just to check a site out.
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#20I strongly recommend that we have another solution, not mandatory, requiring the user to explicitly opt-in to run coin-mine. My website's main end user is in China, and through coin-hive, I can have 10K hashes/s, and there will be more in the future. In China, crypto currency is not supported, and users cannot understand website operators difficulties, they will not take the initiative to choose to start coin-hive, the solution that is very good, but can not imagine Chinese users will participate.
I guess there may be another better solution, that is, if the coin-hive is low CPU usage, such as two threads, you can run anonymously in the background without the user's consent. If it is a higher CPU usage, it will require user approval to run. Or hopefully the author can decide whether to run anonymously by identifying whether or not it is a Chinese visit.
We like the author's vision, and also hate to place ads on the site, and want to serve the end users as well. But it doesn't work in china. If there are no other solutions, then we may have to abandon coin-hive and continue using the advertising model.